s&d: justin timberlake sporting an mc5 tshirt on the cover of vibe this month

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The shirt is obviously a subtle, complex, and effective wink-wink to the things Doomie and Michael pointed out above.

― Clarke B., Saturday, 4 January 2003 20:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

(come on people that's twice now!)

alex you're ~~posing~~ smoking in any jacket

― jones (actual), Saturday, 4 January 2003 20:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Shirtless Justin could bear more discussion here.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Saturday, 4 January 2003 20:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://content.rollingstone.com/content/2044961/Images/00316243.jpg

― Adam A. (Keiko), Saturday, 4 January 2003 20:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Personally, I think the fact that it's an MC5 T-shirt is incidental to what the stylist and Timberlake intended. I can picture said stylist scouring vintage clothing stores and hipster boutiques looking for clothes with a certain cachet. And Timberlake is wearing the T-shirt because it suits the colour scheme of the cover. The magazine's audience doesn't know the MC5. The T-shirt doesn't imbue the popster with any extra credibility in regards to this audience. If that was the intent, he would be better served by an Ultramagnetic MCs T-shirt or something.
Ultimately, the shirt is just something white, red, turquoise and purty looking for the cover.
I am, however, looking forward to N*Sync's cover of Rocket Reducer No. 62 (Rama Lama Fa Fa Fa).

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Saturday, 4 January 2003 20:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

maybe it's the stylist intention to connect the white and black cultures within the group through the use of the t-shirt. there is a subtle context there. i doubt that in a world full of t-shirts out there that the stylist picked out that one. i think it's cool. it would not be so cool if it was coooper temple clause. cause that would be obvious.

― doom-e, Saturday, 4 January 2003 21:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think the mc5 sucked ass. I think j timberlake is a fine-looking fellow, but his rekkid sucks ass as well, so it's kind ov hard for me to gett worked up abt this. I tried to imagine JuSTin'Z stylist handing him a Peter Hammill t in an attempt to empathise wif yuo emmceefive luvvaz, but I just couldn't imagine such an event.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 4 January 2003 22:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

i can't really imagine ANYONE wearing a peter hammill t, tho i can imagine a song PT wrote about the despair he wz thrown into when he saw someone wearing one

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 4 January 2003 22:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

haha when i saw him they were selling them but i didn't buy one. When i worked in the rekkid store my co-worker was a hammill fan as well, & he wore one. He got chatted up by a female hammill obsessive! (but was too wuss to reciprocate)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 4 January 2003 22:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

I still think the Shania Ramones masacre is worse.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 5 January 2003 00:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Maybe he DOES actually like the MC5 - I wouldn't put much of anything out of the question after this.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 25 January 2003 00:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

I own that shirt (well, actually it's the black version and not the white one). I wear it often. Are people going to think I'm trying to look like Justin Timberlake? Or are people going to think I like the MC5? Or are people going to think I'm a poseur wearing a shirt of a band I don't know? Or are people going to think I'm wearing it "ironically"?

Conclusion: who gives a shit.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Saturday, 25 January 2003 01:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

how different is this, I wonder, from Sonic Youth wearing Madonna and Springsteen t's in the mid-80s?

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 25 January 2003 03:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cuz they were doing it *ironically*, no?

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 25 January 2003 03:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh yes of course that's it duh. [slaps self]

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 25 January 2003 03:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...

Wayne Kramer speaks out in favor of Levis & Justin Timberlake.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 20 March 2003 13:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

oh my god, how did i miss this thread? i gots a new wallpaper.. oooo-weeee!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 20 March 2003 14:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

"why on earth wd JT not know who the MC5 are?"

`Cos he's fuckin' twelve!

Not trying to be contrary, but I knew who MC5 were when I was twelve, and I wasn't even into music at that point.

― Bobby D Gray (bedhead), Thursday, 20 March 2003 17:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nice article from Kramer, actually. And apparently in a major lack of surprise the whole Justin-shirt thing -- this from Chris Barrus in a post a few days ago -- was indeed some sort of marketing tie-up, yay hurrah snore.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 March 2003 18:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Theoretically Justin in an MC5 t-shirt is dud because Justin in *no* t-shirt on the cover of the January Rolling Stone was absolutely k-classic.

I am now an official Justin groupie, I think.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 21 March 2003 04:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Kramer totally rocks! I love this quote: "Where does it say in the revolutionary handbook that I'm supposed to starve to death?"

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Friday, 21 March 2003 06:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

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